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OneDrive ZIP downloads is converting Office 365 files to TXT, but not PDF files.
My users are noticing that when they download multiple files from a OneDrive folder, it does its normal ZIP folder download, but then when the user opens the zip file, all the Office 365 files seem t...
For those still having the issue,
In my case, it was because the files uploaded were not published as major versions. When we went to check the properties, it was a minor ver. When I published it, it downloaded correctly without errors.
If you have a lot of files that need publishing, you can use this link as reference:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/28746/publish-major-version-for-all-documents-in-library
In my case, it was because the files uploaded were not published as major versions. When we went to check the properties, it was a minor ver. When I published it, it downloaded correctly without errors.
If you have a lot of files that need publishing, you can use this link as reference:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/28746/publish-major-version-for-all-documents-in-library
My files are not checked out and still have the issue.
Thanks. Publishing files was the issue in mycase.
I don't understand at all that Microsoft can destroy a simple download function and fix it for users.
Just uploaded 2 files on OneDrive, then downloaded it back, sorry...download error! Perfect!!
Anyway, thank you for your solution. Do I need to do this every time to download new created/uploaded files?
You can go into versioning settings and set it up to create major versions instead of major and minor versions. And it will do that for the files uploaded in the future.
